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Principle – Self-Service Platform
Summary
Provide paved-road capabilities so teams can adopt platform services safely without bespoke coordination.
Intent
Accelerate delivery and reduce cognitive load by offering standardized, supported platform capabilities.
Scope and Applicability
Applies to platform services, developer tooling, and workloads that should scale without manual gatekeeping.
Principles
- Offer clear, documented service catalogs with defined lifecycle ownership.
- Default to secure, compliant configurations that teams can consume easily.
- Prefer reusable platform building blocks over bespoke one-off solutions.
Per-Domain Implementation
OpenShift
- Publish supported operators, templates, and service tiers for common workloads.
Networking
- Provide standardized connectivity and ingress/egress patterns as services.
Storage
- Offer storage classes and protection tiers aligned to workload needs.
Security
- Provide identity, access, and policy baselines as self-service capabilities.
Platform
- Maintain consistent onboarding and service-request workflows across domains.
AI
- Offer self-service golden paths for AI workloads (approved runtimes, model serving, and data access) with clear ownership and guardrails.
Exceptions
Highly specialized workloads may require bespoke integration with explicit architectural approval.